Quick Queen’s Sound

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Note that in this series, only lower-case non-cursive letters are included. Lower-case letters are certainly more difficult to write than capitals, but this resource is about exposing children to the look of the letters that they will be seeing in the sentences of their ‘readers’ (books) when they begin formal schooling.

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About the Sound

Guess what? Quick Queen doesn’t make a single sound… she makes two. She makes a combination of Cara Kookaburra’s sound /k/ followed by Wonderful Worm’s sound /w/. This is why children, when they begin to write, can attempt words like “quack” by writing “kwak’.

Quick Queen actually makes a blend (or cluster) of two sounds.

When it develops

Clusters usually appear in a child’s speech by the time they head off to school.

How it is made

See Cara Kookaburra – and see Wonderful Worm sounds – say them together quickly.

Common Errors

Remember, some speech sound errors are perfectly NORMAL as a child progresses in their speech development.

1) See errors associated with Cara Kookaburra.

2) It is a normal developmental error for children to leave out the sound that is second in a cluster (or blend). Children might say “kick” for “quick” and “kiet” for “quiet.” This is an error associated with saying clusters and is called CLUSTER REDUCTION. The error usually resolves naturally by the time a child is around 4 years of age. To help children with this error – say the target word slowly, separating the sounds slightly… /k/…/wick/ for “quick” etc…

About the Letters

The lower-case letter used in this set is the non-cursive letter q. Non-cursive is what is most often seen in text and in the world around a child, so we encourage all written text to be presented in non-cursive in the preschool setting.

This letter is the SAME as the lower-case letter d – only upside-down. It is also the same as the letter p, but reversed. These letters are often confused in the initial stages of learning – and this is perfectly normal. The letter q is followed by the letter u in almost all English words to make the cluster /qu/ – so it is worth learning as a pair.